Hi Frans,
I agree with your point that the current Biztalk BRE rules engine is more powerful than the one in WF. Charles Young provides an excellent article comparing the two in his blog located here <http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/79500.aspx> . I cannot answer your question definitively about why they might replace a more powerful engine with one that is less powerful; however the speculation is that they want a WF engine that satisfies more business cases faster and easier, and that they want one universal workflow and business rules platform for all Microsoft products. Perhaps future versions of WF will achieve the same level of power that BRE has now. Microsoft representatives announced at Tech Ed Boston that WF would be the workflow orchestration engine of future versions of Biztalk. This plan is widely discussed (and debated) on many blogs, and was also announced at the last PDC. --Paul Mehner -----Original Message----- From: Discussion of advanced .NET topics. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frans Bouma Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 10:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Workflow Engine > Microsoft Workflow Foundation is the workflow and business > rules engine for Office 12, Sharepoint 2007, future versions > of Biztalk. I'm not so sure it's the base for future biztalk versions. After all, Biztalk's engine is already so much more powerful, why would they replace that with something less powerful? FB =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor. http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com =================================== This list is hosted by DevelopMentor® http://www.develop.com View archives and manage your subscription(s) at http://discuss.develop.com
